Two cases regarding individuals charged with gang activity and drug offenses are being sent to a grand jury.

Gabrielle Beach, 22, and Keaton Lee, 19, both of La Grange, each waived their right to a preliminary hearing for probable cause on their charges last Wednesday, putting their cases in the hands of a grand jury.

La Grange Police arrested Beach and Lee last month with six other individuals, alleging the eight were part of the Southside Crips gang.

The Oldham County Fiscal Court has authorized a deal to buy roughly two acres of land from the University of Louisville in Westport.

The land is just east of Westport Park, which sits along the Ohio River in northern Oldham County.

According to its agreement with the university, the county will pay a total of $187,500 by October 2015 for the land. Fiscal Court authorized an initial payment of $62,500 in cash for the transaction and will pay that same amount the next two years until the full amount is paid.

With only a few projects left to complete the vision of Central Park in Pewee Valley, the city is once again the proud recipient of a grant from the Peyton Samuel Head Family Trust.

The Head Family Trust has awarded Pewee Valley a $6,800 grant to fund a wooden bridge over one of the Central Park bioswales (a landscape element that helps with run-off), whereby creating yet another dramatic entry into the park. The remaining funds will be used for a series of “Concerts in the Park” in 2014.

Several candidates for local offices have filed their paperwork to run in the 2014 election If you would like to see a photo printed in the Era of a candidate filing for office, please send a photo and a brief description to news@oldhamera.com

If I had a dollar for every time I have heard that print journalism is dead, then paying my rent would be much easier.

As a young person who chose to get a degree in photojournalism I’ve been called everything from brave to silly. However, after spending time with a few community newspapers I have gleefully discovered that people still want ink-stained fingers to accompany their coffee.

When we are clear, the world is clear to us. When we have clarity of mind and heart, we know what to choose, where to go and whom to travel with. When your body is clear – of chemical toxins, negative emotional residue, excess weight and mental chatter – your soul can proceed in the direction of goodness, truth and beauty. When your body and mind and heart are all clear, you can move steadfastly in the direction of loving yourself.

The history of Thanksgiving Day starts with much suffering (starvation and sickness) by the early New England Pilgrams.

Then they finally had a bountiful harvest assisted by helpful Indians. The grateful Pilgrams declared a three-day feast to thank God; which they celebrated with their Indian friends.

Thanksgiving is a day of giving thanks for all of our blessings not just food. Even though it has its roots with religious Pilgrams, it is also celebrated in a secular manner as well. It is a great American holiday.

North Oldham choir featuring “The Northern Lights” show choir are excited to present and share with our community, the tenth anniversary of “The Taste Of Broadway” on Nov. 22 & 23 held at the North Oldham Campus in the high school auditorium located at US 42 and 1793.

Show times and dates for the “Taste Of Broadway” are Friday 7 p.m. and Saturday 2 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door, $10 for adults $5 for children and students. Refreshments are served at intermission.